During this class, some people were chosen to do their film documentary presentations in front of Ms.Rosati and others just continued with the editing of the film. We started to really get down to business and write down a plan, a general outline for our documentary. We had to keep asking ourselves the question, what are we trying to show? What is this going to tell people; what is the answer to our guiding question, what do we want to prove with this footage? I personally found it quite hard, because it's not like writing a story where you are in full control of the different way the story twists and turns, and the message is clear in your mind. You're the one telling the story and the message can become very explicit. It's a lot easier to make the reader understand the message, compared to trying to make a viewer come up with a conclusion on their own (with our documentary). I think our topic is also quite hard, there can be many ways to go about putting it together.
First we all agreed that we should put the footage together in the way that is like showing "a day in the life of a student in HKIS" compared to "a day in the life of a student in CIS". Since we filmed the same classes from both schools to make proper comparisons, we thought we would put the footage side by side, in order of each of the classes. This way the comparisons are clearer, which is what we want to show. To break up the pure footage, we would add bits of interviews to further explain what we're trying to show, to give us examples of the comparisons and further emphasize them. This is only a general outline so I didn't put the specifics of the interviews, I only wrote what I thought should be appropriate at that part and what I think should be there in order to make a balance between footage and interviews. I think to really put everything together we need to re-watch all the footage and really capture the things that relates closely, and the things people say that we can put into our documentary.
By the end of the lesson we managed to finish the outline and now I have a better idea of what our documentary is going to turn out like. For next lesson I think that we really need to manage our time better, come during lunch and break and maybe after school to really get the job done. There are many other aspects we have to work on as well, such as the title sequence which I worked on a bit last class and also the music/sound effects we might like to put in. But the important thing is to really get the footage in order and cut up properly, because then we'll have an idea of what sound effects would work well where and where we should put some music to liven up the mood or to create the mood/atmosphere. They're all very co-related, so that's why the different teams of putting together a film have to work together really well. I think that's very important in many things, such as putting together a music production, or a play.
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